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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
There's also his stint in jail for tax evasion. But compared to the criminals of Hollywood today...
That's way too little to justify keeping him out. Some actors got a free pass for way worse.
Edited by Coobalt-Dahonli-One on Jul 20th 2019 at 11:20:34 AM
Short answer is yes. Long answer is that it’s no harder than it would be making Man-Ape into a respectable character despite the character being a blatant “muscly savage Scary Black Man” stereotype, or Wong not a “submissive Asian manservant” stereotype.
In Iron Man 3, they chose not to put in the work to make the character work. Not that it was a bad idea conceptually (I still think the twist was brilliant, I’d only they hadn’t flubbed what followed after it), but it left something missing that didn’t become fully evident until Black Panther came along and unabashedly chose not to sweep those characters under the rug and instead chose to put in that work to remove the problematic aspects and instead make them shine.
Given Shang Chi’s origin story, I’m suspecting the Mandarin is going to end up as something of a “Alexander Pierce (Winter Soldier) meets the Ancient One” type, especially heavy on the Pierce part.
Hoping they'll give him a similar armor to the one from Armored Adventures. Because I still remember it and it was Badass.
Edited by Coobalt-Dahonli-One on Jul 20th 2019 at 11:30:22 AM
Please, keep Mandarin unarmored. There are enough evil armored IM foes as it is.
All I want is his goddamn rings.
"All you Fascists bound to lose."Context is key, here. The optics of an Asian villain being fought by an Asian superhero are different than an Asian villain vs. a white guy in a cast full of varying portrayals of Asian characters.
Much like how the reception to M'Baku or Killmonger likely would've been far different had they been the bad guys in a Captain America movie or something.
Since Selma is playing Ajak
, i wonder if there will be other gender flips.
After winning his Oscar for Greenbook, Mahershala called Marvel and told Feige he wanted to play Blade[1]
Edited by ComicFan on Jul 20th 2019 at 8:43:46 AM
“The answer is yes,” Feige said of Valkyrie having an LGBTQ storyline. “How that impacts the story remains to be seen with that level of representation you’ll see across our films, not in just Thor 4.”
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Well, call that "persuasive".
Also, I gotta say, I am impressed by the announcements. Particularly Thor.
Edited by NotSoBadassLongcoat on Jul 20th 2019 at 5:54:32 PM
"what the complete, unabridged, 4k ultra HD fuck with bonus features" - Mark Von LewisSnipes spends years negotiating to reprise his role: nothing.
Ali makes a simple phone call: he gets the gig.
Knowing it was the latter's idea rather than Feige's makes me feel somewhat better, at least.
Edited by Coobalt-Dahonli-One on Jul 20th 2019 at 11:58:34 AM
Wesley Snipes is a 56 year faded hollywood star who hasn't had a bonafide hit since Blade II., which was twenty years ago, and has been in jail for tax evasion. Bad bet to cast him as the main star of a reboot, much as I like him.
I do think they should cast him as a secondary role though.
GDT would be amazing, but I question if they're willing to go the r-rated route and giving GDT the creative control he demands of his projects.
Actually I hope it's R-Rated. Lessgo Marvel.
Edited by Gaon on Jul 20th 2019 at 9:07:33 AM
"All you Fascists bound to lose."It's not that bring Del Toro into the director's chair is a bad idea. In fact, it would be a dream come true.
It's just that the guy has a massive attention deficit. If you want him on the project, you have to ensure he'll stick until the end and not get distracted by another movie idea midway through.
Oh, and he can't stand Executive Meddling. You want Del Toro? Then let him do his goddamn job.
Getting him to direct a movie is pretty much Difficult, but Awesome.
He played the character for 3 movies. Call him a wash-out if you want, but he deserves to pass the torch on-screen at the very least. Not with a motherfuckin' Tweet.
Edited by Coobalt-Dahonli-One on Jul 20th 2019 at 12:10:51 PM
I wouldn't say GDT is that unfocused. His problem is pursuing many projects at once and not getting any of them off the ground, but if he's directing a movie, he sticks to it and sees it through. He has never abandoned a movie midway through.
"All you Fascists bound to lose."
That was the Oscorp Tower actually. The reason it didn't happen was because special effects were too far done to add it in.
Otherwise, yeah: Blade's recast is not comparable to Spider-man's. Plus, Into the Spider-verse was actually meant to give both Garfield and Maguire cameos as their incarnations, but lawyers screwed it.
Edited by Coobalt-Dahonli-One on Jul 20th 2019 at 12:24:17 PM
I mean it would certainly be a nice gesture but I don't think it's a requirement.
This song needs more love.

Personally I blame the nonsense with Trinity on David S. Goyer, but obviously I wasn’t there.